Menuetto and Trio in C Major, K. 409

Composer: MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus
  • This one-movement symphonic work premiered in Vienna in May 1782. Mozart composed the piece earlier that year.1
  • This is one of many smaller works Mozart produced while he was focused on writing The Abduction from the Seraglio.2
  • This minuet is sometimes heard as a movement in an alternate version of Mozart’s Symphony no. 34, K.338.3

Sources

  1. Cliff Eisen, and Stanley Sadie, “Mozart, (Johann Chrysostom) Wolfgang Amadeus,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed November 19, 2019,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-6002278233. 
  2. Maynard Solomon, Mozart: A Life (New York: Harper Collins, 1995), 286.
  3. Ibid.

Cut IDs

44846